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Since I started food blogging I have not been eating out nearly as often. When I was eating out it was commonly at pubs and every once in a while I get a craving for pub food. One of my favorite things to order at a pub is fish and chips. Up until now I have not tried to make fish and chips at home as I was worried about deep frying. It had been too long since I last had fish and chips and I was craving it. It was time to try making fish and chips at home! I had seen the fish described as being beer battered on several menus and I wanted to try making beer battered fish. I went with cod for the fish but you could use pretty much any white fish such as haddock or halibut, etc. For the beer I went with Guinness and it gave the batter a nice dark colour. I was surprised by how easy the Guinness battered cod was to make! The batter was nice and light and crispy and the fish was moist and tender and so good! To complete the pub fish and chips experience, I served the fish with chips , cole slaw , tartar sauce , lemon slices, malt vinegar and of course a pint of Guinness.

I haven't had beer battered fish in a long time; I miss it! I don't have a deep fryer ... do you think this could successfully be accompished frying in a skillet? As always, your food presentation is lovely.

I am new to your blog today, and have to tell you how impressed I am. You are fantastic! I have sat here tonight and looked through nearly all of your recipes (pathetic I know) and am so excited to have found you! Thank you for sharing your amazing talent!

I just bought a good amount of cod from Whole Foods the other day and was hoping to make fish & chips. Does the beer really help to make it better? Bobby Flay has a really good recipe for fish & chips with a habenero tartar sauce (he puts hots in almost everything).Your fish & chips look so crispy. I can't wait to try this Kevin.

As an Englishman marooned in Oklahoma I must say that your fish and chips look absolutely delightful. You've inspired me to talk my wife into buying a small deep freeze so we can purchase and store better seafood than is obtainable locally. This would enable us to enjoy tasty seafood such as shown here.

I just came across your simple, but fabulous recipe for fish and chips. I am so glad I found your site. I intend to cook up many of your recipies.

The Yard of the Week featured in last week's Mt. Vernon, Illinois Register-News is almost my Aunt ßetty's house in Florida. I got to stay with Aunt ßetty for a couple weeks when I was a kid of about nine years old. I remember Uncle Bob and I made a crystal radio set. Oh, it was so fun. And Aunt ßetty cut up an avocado for me to eat, it was good but I thought it smelled strange. I'd give anything to smell it now, as I lost my sense of smell about four years ago due to my allergies. And despite having sinus surgery earlier this year, alas, my smell is still gone. Oh, and those special, special Tupperware containers Aunt ßetty kept her cereal in.

I used to catch those little lizards in Aunt ßetty's yard. Oh, I'd pop them right in my mouth and bite their juicy and crunchy little heads off. And then their little headless bodies would do that little devil-dance for a minute or two.

Anyway, Aunt ßetty's house was the same kind of sea-green color. And to make a long story short, the Yard of the Week is right down there near the end of my street, Airport Road! Last year I could have nominated my own house for House of the Week, but that da-gummed Ameren went and killed our pretty pine tree.

You know, the irony of where I live will astound you. I am sandwiched in-between teacher neighbors. To the east, we have my Niece and Nephew's kindergarten teacher at Belle Rive. To the west is my own Kindergarten teacher’s from Belle-Rive house, who sadly passed away a couple years ago. Her grandson lives there now. He and I occasionally drink some beer and talk (argue at times) politics. He is a right-of-center Republican and I am a left-of-center Democrat.

I sure wish Uncle Bob was still around. I accidentally dropped and broke one of his magnets one time and instead of scolding me, Uncle Bob explained to me the electro-magnetic force. He passed away back in the early eighties. I wish him and I could get together and talk scientific stuff. I am named after him, after all. I’d love to talk with him about Super-Symmetric String Theory. I’d love for him to see the brand spankin' new Large Hadron Collider that is about ready to go online. Poor old Uncle Bob, I sure do miss him. Remember the Mr. Wizard science show for kids? Going to his house was like going to see Mr. Wizard live in person. He even looked like Mr. Wizard.

It is time for me to make a pilgrimage to Clearwater, Florida. I want to be down there at Uncle Bob's grave on September 10th, the day the Large Hadron Collider at CERN officially goes online, so I can just sit near his- one of my greatest mentors- grave and tell him that one of Humankind’s greatest scientific instruments has finally gone online.

I like cooking and I live in Japan, so you can imagine the problems I have with getting real western food. I usually surf the net looking for recipes that have a taste of home. I'm from the US, but I love fish and chips as does my family. When we decided to make fish and chips I googled for a recipe and your came up and I chose yours. I was very good.The only thing I would like to is that you recipe makes quite a bit of batter. For a family of three half would be fine. Again good recipe!Dennis

I made this fish last night. The batter was light, flavorful and not too thick, just what I was hoping for. I didn't have Guinness and I think the batter would have been better with the darker beer. But it was still delish. I was worried about not having enough batter, my piece of cod was 1.69lbs, so I did a batch and a half and ended up with a lot of leftover batter and nothing fun to fry (I want to try frying a Mars Bar next time). Thanks for the wonderful and easy to follow recipe!

I really like your blog and the recipes I have tried so far are great.

However it would be nice to see some recipes that use fish that are sustainable such as pollock, pouting or one of the many other under used fish species. Cod and Haddock are massively over fished and we should all seek to guard them for future generations.

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I came to realize that my meals were boring and that I had been eating the same few dishes over and over again for years. It was time for a change! I now spend my free time searching for, creating and trying tasty new recipes in my closet sized kitchen.